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sociopathy

n. The property of being a sociopath—a person showing antisocial behavior as part of psychiatric pathology.

Usage examples of "sociopathy".

True, pure sociopathy is really pretty rare, but Mommy Dearest qualifies, I think.

But there are degrees of sociopathy, and I think Scott Scurlock was only moderately afflicted, and not a killer.

She was much more confident in her perceptions of sociopathy than he was.

And I think that it was his mutant vampirism that made him insane, not natural goblin sociopathy, which oddly enough has limits.

My moment of peaceful sociopathy was stretched to an eternity in the head of that big cat.

Firing lightning bolts in all directions just to share his happiness with the world, ranting that he had just accomplished what Ock and Venom and The Green Goblin and Doctor Doom had never been able to do, and at the same time rehearsing the witty romantic badinage that would burble from his suave lips as he squired the lovely Pity hither and yon, he embodied not just his usual sociopathy but also the truism that love makes fools of us all, especially for those of us who already happen to be far from the swiftest bulbs in the marquee.

Killing and tormenting animals was one of the signs of developing sociopathy in teens.